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THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1946

Hogan 3-1

‘THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

Eovorite As Open Field Starts

13 Ex-Champs

Golf Shooters

CLEVELAND, June 13 (U. P.).~— They're off today in the first round of golidom's big 72-hole “pitch, putt, and a prayer” carnival at Canterbury country club in which is expected to be a wild scramble to take the U. 8, Open title from 45-year-old champion Craig Wood. Wood, who held the title by default through the war years after winning it in 1941, was in the field

that he is too old to withstand the!

Hogan, Byron Nelson, BSammy Snead and a number of the lesser

Hogan was a prohibitive favorite,

Nelson, champion in 1939 and America’s leading golfer

a great void. Single Round Today All but 25 or so players, who are along merely for the ride, were con~ ceded a chance to piece together four great rounds and storm home a winner Saturday night, Single rounds were scheduled to-| day and tomorrow. At the end of | tomorrow's round the field will be! trimmed to the low 60 scorers and | ties for the pay-off 38 hole final | Saturday. | There were 13 former champions back for another try ranging from Wood, the defender, to silver-haired Freddie MacLeod of Chevy Chase,| Md., who won the big cup back in| 1908 with seven clubs in his bag.

Rains Soften Greens A 24-hour rain put the 6026- yard

Hornet Battery in Huddle

By JOHN P, CARMICHAEL Chicago Dally News Sports Editor N LAKES, N. J, June 13.—Joe Louis will go into the ring against Billy Conn next Wednesday

.|night at 8 to 1. That is the opinion

of one of New York's sharpest price-makers, who reasoned it out like this: “Right now the odds are between

too much big money showing yet. In the next few days I wouldn't be surprised to see Louis only 2 to 1

toward Joe.” No matter how much Conn's sup-

11 to 5 and 14 to 5 and there isn't

or even 9 to 5. But 48 hours before the bout, the guys who haven't been able to make up their minds will take the plunge and swing

in Joe's” favor—Oonn hasn't the speed he had five years ago. “No matter how he looks, he hasn't got it. ‘The four yeas lay. off has taken some of that life out of his legs. . “Billy won't be able to step around like he used to for 15 rounds.” Reaching Top Shape Slowly, but surely, the champ is reaching top-notch shape. Today, for instance, he is only a pound or 80 over the 210 he wants to weigh at ringside, Calmly and unhurried, he probes his way through daily drills, moving his gloved fists against his spar

dark.

mates like a guy groping in the!

But that's the way Joe fights. |

Odds-Maker Predicts Champ to Enter Ring 3-1 Choice Over Conn in Title Battle

they? 1 been hit before; I expect)

Conn to hit me too, He can't miss all night.” Of course, if anybody goes down, Joe rather expects it will be Conn but he remembers a couple of times when he hit the resin. In fact, he got talking .about the night he beat Jim Braddock for the title in Chicago. Up at Three Count Jim clipped him one, down Joe went. Up he popped at the count of two or three. At the end of the round, trainer “Chappie” Black burn was waiting in the corner.

“Next time you go down, you stay |

for nine,” said Blackburn. “Remem-

Bill Fox, catcher, and Gene Mangin, pitcher, of the Brookside

this time. They are asking 3 to 1

good gamble, Mickey Walker, hale and hearty, likes Louis. “He's got the punch,” said the former middleweight

porters take, the guy has soid a lot of new customers on himself Patinitly Sarin Joe nv pening if they bet on Billy. That proves a oo shud RB Ihe a AY Sa they don't regard him as a Very|i,ved so good because his sparmates were hitting him. “That's what we pay ‘em for,” he said. “If|'ing up quick,” he laughed they didn't hit me, what good are

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ber Joe, you can't get up so fast that those folks in the bleachers won't know you were down.” { The astuteness of that observation has stuck with the champ. “1 guess you ain't foolin' anybody get- |

champ, who could throw leather himself, “but there's another thing

First Outdoor Card Tonight

Heavyweights Johnny Denson of! Indianapolis and Al Patterson, rangy Pittsburgh 210-pound mauler, will clash tonight on the inaugural | Jutdoor boxing bill of the summer | season to be staged at Sports Arena, | corner of Pennsylvania and North | sts.

| Hornets, a strong C team in junior baseball competition, decide how |

the opening game on Monday is going to be won. Keith Miller is the Hornets’ manager.

tournament course in perfect con-| dition, softening its glassy greens to, such an extent that 14 practice | rounds yesterday were under far.

'Amateur Day’ Set for Aug. 4;

Canterbury, however,» engineered To Synef [otters Reinstated

72 par over a four-round stretch.| In addition to its length, and its four toughest holes stringing along!

By BERNARD HARMON

This season's “amateur day,’ the annual program sponsored by the| at the finish, there is an unfathom- Indianapolis amateur baseball association, will be staged at Victory

able wind whipping in off Lake Erie | field Sunday, Aug. 4.

and no two days are exactly alike,

8howers were expected again to- {night and further details of the sandiot event will be discussed at a|

The date was set in a meeting of the association in city hall last

day, and Hogan, Nelson and Lawson | meeting of the amateur day committee next Wednesday night.

Little, who won the title at Canter-|

bury in 1940 after a playoff with|committee; Del Giffin, president, and|thelr “fourth consecutive twilight Edwin (Hop) Howard, secretary, of defeat, 14-1. the amateur association, will help co-operate in naming various other committees.

Gene 8arazen, all figured the rain| would be a benefit. So did Melvin (Chick) Harbert, the young Detroit professional who won an opening driving contest yesterday wtih an

Carl C. Callahan, chairman of the

Two players were reinstated to

average of 252% yards for three ip... amateur status in last night's|‘he season.

drives. Hogan tapered off with a four un-|

Anal practice rounds.

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Eagles Catcher to Canada Marl Crowley, Armour

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Racing Card

De Wolf News Bows The feature attraction of the mid-week loop was Leonard Clean- Tomorrow night-—At Indianapers’ 2-1 triumph over DeWolf News.| olis Speedrome, Kitley ave. and It was sweet revenge for the Clean-| highway 52 (Consolidated Midget ers, who dropped a 10-8 decision Racing association). to the, Newsmen in Sunday's Muni- Saturday night—At Greene cipal league. field Midgetdrome. (C. M. R. A). DeWolf took the lead in the sec- —eeeeee ond when they scored their lone FIGHT RESULTS run on a single, a Leonard error By UNITED PRESS and a fielder's choice. The Clean-|146':, ers knotted the count in the third, | mings, 145%, Frilluseiphie @®. chasing a runner across on Lite's|,. single and stolen base and Atter-| Wilson, 165, Oskland, Cal (3).

The winners garnered 15 hits off Bredl and Thoren, while Fred Cato and Don Marr held the Printers to six. The losers’ seventh- | inning run was their first tally of |

in the | ton and Gooden. The Gooden-Paul |

nicipal stadium last night, as Joe Pie- | clock.

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Twilight league] games on city park diamonds, ContiAliop, nental Optical won over Indiana Trust,

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Eli Lilly Co. won its second State league contest of the week, downmg Arnold MoDaniel ‘school and Central Normal college|liimted the losers io four hits. Tonight's Em-Roe Independent league basketball and baseball|}.nedule at Beech Grove stadium is as |star, played with Mitchell-Scott in|follows: 7—Weak's Market vs. Schoettle’s

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WORCESTER, Mass. —Ray (Sugar) Robn, 156, New . knocked out Freddy

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